Senate Republicans used a procedural vote Wednesday to block a bill to reverse the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling and prohibit for-profit companies from denying employees contraception coverage based on owners’ religious beliefs. The vote was 56-43 to take up the measure, co-sponsored by Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Mark Udall, D-Colorado. A […]
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The U.S. Senate’s Democrats, mobilized by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., on Tuesday took aim at “five men on the Supreme Court” who decided that employers could deny employees contraception coverage to which they have religious-based objections. They introduced legislation that would overturn the Supreme Courts’ recent Hobby Lobby decision, and — the unspoken hope […]
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The conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court told an evangelical college on Friday that it does not have to abide by an Affordable Care Act contraception requirement if it has a religious reason not to provide birth control to students and staff. The ruling, in the form of an emergency stay to Wheaton College, […]
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The Hobby Lobby decision by the U.S. Supreme Court not only upholds “religious freedom” but also means that employers don’t have to subsidize sex for “recreational behavior,” according to several of America’s best-known male conservative commentators. “My religion trumps your ‘right’ to employer-subsidized, consequence-free sex,” proclaimed Erick Erickson of the Red State web site. […]
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